Judgment_paragraph 24 · Petco Animal Supplies Stores, Inc. v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (T-664/13)

24Under Article 21 of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union, applicable to the procedure before the General Court by virtue of the first paragraph of Article 53 thereof, and Article 44 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court of 2 May 1991, the application initiating proceedings must indicate, inter alia, the subject-matter of the dispute and contain the form of order sought by the applicant. The form of order sought must be set out in a precise and unequivocal manner, since otherwise the Court would risk giving a ruling infra petita or ultra petita and disregarding the rights of the defendant (order of 13 April 2011 in Planet v Commission, T‑320/09, ECR, EU:T:2011:172, paragraph 22). Since the European Union Court before which an action for annulment has been brought may not rule ultra petita, the scope of the annulment which it pronounces may not go further than that sought by the applicant (see order of 24 May 2011 in Government of Gibraltar v Commission, T‑176/09, EU:T:2011:239, paragraph 44 and the case-law cited).